Bllaca lies about 10 km north of Theranda. At Bregishtë, in the middle of the village, pottery, vessel fragments and roof tiles are regularly exposed during agricultural work. The same area preserves the place-name Te Kisha, while old burial grounds are found in the Zekollë neighbourhood.
Bllaca is documented in the Deçan chrysobull of 1330 as Bllatace and appears again in 14th-century medieval records. A register from 1455 records it as Bladci with 34 households. Later centuries brought repeated migration; after the Serbian conquest of Kosovo in 1912, Albanian families were forced to leave for Albania, Turkey and elsewhere. Local historical memory also preserves the role of Ramë Bllaca in resisting the pressure on Albanians to emigrate.
On the eve of the 1998–99 war the village had around 450 families and approximately 4,700 residents. Bllaca suffered serious wartime destruction; part of the population was expelled to Albania, while others sheltered in the mountains.
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Source and further reading
Principal source: Prof. Dr. Jusuf Osmani, Settlements of Kosovo 4 — Theranda (Suhareka), Prishtina, 2003.
Source entry: BLLACA
This page presents a selected summary from the published study of the settlement. For complete archival references, family histories, microtoponymy and the full treatment, consult the original volume.